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Thursday, 25 September 2008
poetry .

dont WE all JUST love SARAH?
BUT she SCARES us AND goes GO AWAY laaaa
when SHE gets MAD
WE all GET sad):
shes A computer GEEK
AND also A nursing FREAK
SHE always GIVES us BEAR hugs
so WE can give HER highschool MUSICAL muggs
she ALWAYS says*goodnight! SLEEPTIGHT! and DONT let THE bed BUGS bite *
shes ALWAys CHEERFULL
AND very LOVABLE
AND thats WHY we ALL love SARAH


--- by zoe lee .
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when the weather is fine .

holidays, even though i haven't officially started my holidays.
im physically exhausted, like aching, also probably cause i finallyyy gave blood today.
but also cause its pretty much been non-stop & ive been neglecting sleep .
so what have i been doing?

phoebe's long anticipated 21st.
finally, the day came! much food, mangos, pyro-ing, camwhoring, dancing, hilarious speeches, TIRAMISU & just a great time :D

after surprise party secret mission
our impromptu surprise consisting of pee hands, 49.999% yes, selftimer camwhoring, silent farts, indian calls, creepy papparazzi, jumping out from behind cars .. turned to conselling session.


stayupover with janey
we didnt even get to watch any friends, gilmore girls or zoolander.. but talked about cereal and i can't even remember anymore O___O but it was clearly interesting enough that we realised the sky was bright at 7ish. and fell asleep at the first credits of our first ep of gilmore girls. for an hour, when kayla came. and we played wii. and a lot of guitar hero.

operation christmas child
our awesome group met at shoppo for operation christmas child! we went shopping to fill up presents for needy kids. and had some ~fellowship~ while we were at it. much fun to be had the toys department of bigw & the $2 shop . as well as FREE krispykremes, BGLs and (just gotta go!) oporto. we filled up like 9 boxes ! :D



li's birthday dinner @ shoya
guh. good food. random stories. photowhoring. wasabi. scampi. dresses. non-dresses. chocolate. kimchi. korean happy birthday. ed hardy&oriental lillies. strawberries and tealight candles. photoboothing. random social experiments of a man eating toast for dinner. late night playgrounding.


sleeping and mummy
i got up for one hour of lecture, and then went home and SLEPT (missed 3 hours of other less useful lectures :O) . haha. got up, headed back to the city for movieing with uni kids. we watched 'the mummy 3' LOL . i wasn't that interested in watching it, but went for the company.. but it was surprisingly GOOD. lolol. love talking through the whole movie. I THROW MY FACE AT YOU.

fedsquare fun & blooooooooood
so here we are today, where i got to uni ON TIME (first time ever whoa). lectured it up til 11. then headed to the city. dondon at state library. safewaying. dropped off amy at st v's via city circle. ended up at fedsquare, where we discovered was 'poor man's melb show' LOL . it was FREE! and it was the australian idol concert (i didnt even recognise jess mauboy). and we met caramello koala. nom nom nom. and got more free things.

we went shopping, lucy got a leather jacket, and then she left :( and i was stuck in the city for another 2 hours to pass before my blood appointment. so i continuted shopping. and lets just say.. target had a 20% off clothing sale :D

oh and my blood donation record was 8.47minutes. and im O+



and all this.. in the past 4 days !


--
coming up
dandenong with phoebe & her crew
ssmm reunion (steph - now rachel - , sarah, mon & mel !) at bochiu
work work work work
PETERBOROUGHHHH
roadtrip/bbq with uni kids
eurekaa
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Friday, 19 September 2008
you're blessed .

"You're blessed when you're at the end of your rope. With less of you there is more of God and his rule.

"You're blessed when you feel you've lost what is most dear to you. Only then can you be embraced by the One most dear to you.

"You're blessed when you're content with just who you are—no more, no less. That's the moment you find yourselves proud owners of everything that can't be bought.

"You're blessed when you've worked up a good appetite for God. He's food and drink in the best meal you'll ever eat.

"You're blessed when you care. At the moment of being 'care-full,' you find yourselves cared for.

"You're blessed when you get your inside world—your mind and heart—put right. Then you can see God in the outside world.

"You're blessed when you can show people how to cooperate instead of compete or fight. That's when you discover who you really are, and your place in God's family.

"You're blessed when your commitment to God provokes persecution. The persecution drives you even deeper into God's kingdom.


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Blessed (happy, to be envied, and spiritually prosperous--with life-joy and satisfaction in God's favor and salvation, regardless of their outward conditions) are the poor in spirit (the humble, who rate themselves insignificant), for theirs is the kingdom of heaven!

Blessed and enviably happy [with a happiness produced by the experience of God's favor and especially conditioned by the revelation of His matchless grace] are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted

Blessed (happy, blithesome, joyous, spiritually prosperous--with life-joy and satisfaction in God's favor and salvation, regardless of their outward conditions) are the meek (the mild, patient, long-suffering), for they shall inherit the earth!

Blessed and fortunate and happy and spiritually prosperous (in that state in which the born-again child of God enjoys His favor and salvation) are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness (uprightness and right standing with God), for they shall be completely satisfied!

Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God!

Be glad and supremely joyful, for your reward in heaven is great (strong and intense), for in this same way people persecuted the prophets who were before you.

matthew five (msg & amp)

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Thursday, 18 September 2008
star wars .


so. okay. coles can be fun.
my alliance with safeway is slowly weakening.
i think its time to look for a new job.
(but not at coles, dw)

i hate rosters. i hate the new system.
psh, sif prevent me from going to my sisters 21st.
im going to be sick yo.
and now peterborough? booo .
not happy jan.



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Tuesday, 16 September 2008
you can stand under my umbrella. ella. ella. eh.

melbourne weather is CRAZY. it definitely has a mental disorder, bipolar or something. cause yesterday was beautiful & today well.. IT WAS SO WINDY. and RAINY. and cold.

so as always, i walked into the city from uni. we dropped off diana at home & then mimi left to meet her bf at rmit and it was only then that it started POURING. and i was left without an umbrella walking towards melb central.

as i waited at the traffic lights to cross the street, this lady pulled me under her umbrella, and commented on how crazy the weather was. i was startled, but agreed. the lights turned green, and we walked together under her umbrella across the street. once on the other side, we parted ways with a thank you.

its little things like this, small kind deeds from random strangers, that just light up your day, whatever the weather is like.

(:
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Monday, 15 September 2008
longing .


i can't wait for holidays.
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things to do.

start online babies essay
look at context assignment
go a whole day without facebook
finish cleaning room
import more albums
research old/new ipods
buy threadless tee
print out more photos
buy opaque tights
be excited about peterborough

STUDY .
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Saturday, 13 September 2008
saturday night .

after karaoke plans were cancelled, my saturday night plan was set .

left home alone
season 6&7 gilmore girls on the tv
me, with my laptop on my.. lap
msning, facebooking, stalking
and peanutbutter & nutella jars open to my left.
in my red kimono & listening to jkpop .
and now im watching sesame st .

welcome to my life.
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exam timetable

Monday
NRSG240_4C_200860
17 Nov 2008
CONTEXTS OF NURSING 4 9:00
MEL/M2.48

Thursday
BIOL229_4C_200860 20 Nov 2008
APPLIED SCIENCE FOR PRACTICE 4 9:00
MEL/M1.46
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Thursday, 11 September 2008
so what's new?

A snippet from Wes' xanga (one third of Wongfu). Something I thought was completely true. Especially on those awkward conversations when you bump into people on the bus, and you can't get away from them cause you can't just get off the bus and thus must endure the 20-30 minute ride.


Anatomy of a Post-Grad Conversation

Sure I've been out of school for awhile, but that doesn't mean I've stopped learning. The interesting thing I've noticed is, in school you learn from lectures, notes, books, labs, tests, basically everything that makes you feel and think "eww. gross." But after you graduate and you do that thing called post-grad life, you learn in a different way. Things begin to repeat themselves and form patterns. One of the patterns I've realized is something that happens in conversations. Not conversations with daily friends, but maybe someone you see once every few weeks, or longer. So what is that pattern?

The only things people really talk about are: Work, Relationships, and Hair.

WORK. The first "So what's up?" usually refers to your job. How's the daily grind going? Do you like your job? What's your boss like? You have any hot co-workers? Are you making more than I am? But really, any hot co-workers? All very pertinent questions that deserved to be answered. Usually I tend to stay away from personal work talk because sadly it seems like a downer sometimes. There's not a lot of people totally satisfied and happy with what they do. Which is understandable. At our age, everyone's figuring stuff out right? But I can answer those questions to humor you.

In my case, it's uni (Oh, so what are you studying again? Oh, I'm doing nursing at ACU, Australiancatholicuniversityyestheoneonvictoriaparadenearporcheyeswedoofferothercoursesotherthannursing.) and then the part-time work.

BOYS AND GIRLS. "So what's new?" Not to be confused with "So what's up?" which is clearly referring to work. Sorry but no one cares what's new with your job. Okay sometimes it's cool. But people really want to know who you're checking out, who you're dating, all that juicy stuff I guess. Work and relationships. Seriously, that's what it comes down to. Usually you cover the first as fast as you can to get to the latter. Relationship talk can actually last the bulk of the conversation. This is normal. Depending on how in touch the friend(s) is, you'll have to fill them in with all the details. There's a few directions this talk can go. There's "I met someone new and we've just started talking, warm fuzzies!" or "I'm having problems with guy/girl and it's not looking good, what would you do?" or "I'm so emo because I haven't met anyone in like forever years and the most contact I've had with people is the 43 strangers I poked on facebook one hour ago" You get the idea. The dangerous part about the relationship portion of a conversation is that it can go both ways. You may talk to someone extremely happy or someone unbearably sad. But sharing is caring– so let it out.

This, in my case, also goes onto, friendships. (Oh, so who else do you see from school? (Oh yeah, I see suwenlindalijanecat often, which is really weird cause we weren't even that close in high school but yeah, thats how life changes right ? *lame laugh*)

HAIR. I know it's ridiculous. But hair talk is everywhere. Once you get past work and relationship talk, you move on to personal, superficial things. Oh and hair talk includes materialistic jabber like how the new iphone is such a ripoff but you still got one anyway...just cuz. Or how that MTV pilates dvd you bought is working wonders on your thunder thighs. (By the way, there's nothing wrong with thunder thighs, you really didn't need that dvd). Okay, back to hair. Hair talk usually follows the end of relationship talk. Example: "I dunno..I guess we'll just keep talking and figure out what happens." *Both parties sigh in agreement, followed by a brief silence* "I need a haircut." That's the catalyst. Right there. New hairstyles, hair coloring, old haircuts– there's so much you can talk about with hair. And it makes sense if you think about it. All that emotional energy spent talking about love is quickly balanced with super meaningless artificial appearance talk. But hair talk is fun for that reason. It's light, it's pointless.

And this is the point where you're reaching the next freeway exit and hope for the end of the conversation draws near..

RANDOMS. Nearing the end of the conversation, you're left with some time to just..chill. During this time, you might start playing one of those riddle games. "If I'm a flashlight and Annie's a flashlight, are you a flashlight?" That sorta stuff. Or you might tell a lame joke not because it has a good punch line but because it's so lame, it's funny. But among other things, one of my favorites is when one person is fiddling with their wallet and takes out there driver's license or ID and then that prompts everyone else to do the same. "I'll show you mine if you show me yours" sorta deal. ID sharing is a common gateway to another popular topic: old school memories. And by old school I mean, your actual old school and oldschool, like the slang. (I'm so hip with my lingo, I know). Also during the "Randoms" part of a conversation, it's very possible to return to previous topics. Example: "OMG I remember when you had short hair, it looked so fugly!" (Not the best thing to say, but it's true...you fugly). The random stuff you do at the end of a conversation is sometimes the most fun. It's the stuff that reminds you why you're friends in the first place. Because you can just sit and be stupid with each other.

This is the best part, when you finally get of the bus. At this point, you either feel relief or you're left smiling. If smiling, you're left satisfied as one bus ride, that 30 minutes, was a longer conversation that you'd ever had in the six years you went to school together. It shows how frivolous those cliques and popularity games played were.

Wes' xanga: http://www.xanga.com/hekkAtekkA
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Tuesday, 9 September 2008
hoi sum .

i like jumping on my bed singing wicked songs .. especially .. DEFFYINGG GRAVITYYYY (as i defy gravity as i am jumping in the air on my bed) .

i like all you can eat yum cha thats so food filled that you break your chopstick and successfully secretly tau pau some for later.

i like talking to randoms when melbourne drama (like bourke st myer catching on fire) to find out the goss about why theres 15 firetrucks blocking off swanston/bourke st.

i like waking up, looking at the clock and realising you don't have to work or uni or anything and that you can just sleep in.

i like karaoke and finding others that also like karaoke and planning to go to karaoke on saturday night and having a ride home.

i like double pay days and checking my bank account when the balance is over one thousand.. and the results of going shopping after (:

i like making people smile by doing things like writing little notes for when they come home from a long days work or buying little gifts to let them know they're appreciated.

i like reminiscing about childhood days when we would do spice girls routines on the oval and play with bugs and about the boy who held my hand as he taught me how to walk across the monkey bars.

on the other hand, i do not like working til 9.30pm. do not want pls.
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Sunday, 7 September 2008
singing .

friday night impact : running down burgundy with cake, worship reaching the next level, cake stuffing cadre wars, asking biblestudy & birthday umbrella fun.



saturday
had brunchies with linda on doncaster rd, picked her up from her new house, saw a guy who sings and buys bakers delight, window shopped at shoppo, nearly went to ikea, hogged the swings at the park & caught up on almost everything.

reluctantly went to work, decided not to go to simple plan & had a lot of fun being random to customers . bom chicka wah wah.

saturday night
we had dinner with janey's family at mezza on lygon. banquet of 6 dishes = dip & lebanese satays . lol . BUT there was belly dancing by fran fine, aka the nanny. which is apparently sinful in todays sermon LOL. it was good, intellectual talk about church, abortion, america etc. && after dinner, we headed down to the other side of lygon for some late night gelati (roche & cookies . hearts ) .



sunday
fathers day. church. a lot of drama regarding the video presentation D: but i think it turned out well. jane's song made me cry, even though ive heard it so many times. but all in all it was a good service.

came home with my family & we watched the office . went to kunyit for dinner as well & got my dad 'james and the giant peach' as a present. he liked it so we watched it when we came home. haha yay family time.



happy father's day yo.
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Saturday, 6 September 2008
dan in real life .

mitch: I swear, the minute I saw her I felt like I was in the room with an angel.
dan: this corn is like an angel.

love is not a feeling, Mr. Burns. It's an ability.

What don't I understand, Cara? Please, help me out. What is it? Is it frustrating that you can't be with this person? That there's something keeping you apart? That there's something about this person that you can connect with? And whenever you're near this person, you don't know what to say, and you say everything that's in your mind and in your heart, and you know that if you could just be together, that this person would help you become the best possible version of yourself?

steve carrell is hearts. lol. yeah, my family just stayed up til now watching dan in real life. my family pwnz. (:
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Wednesday, 3 September 2008
chicken sauce .

alllllright .

i'm going to sleep .

hopefully i won't wake up past noon, like i did today and miss uni.

and i think i'll go to simple plan. cause im emo yo.
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Tuesday, 2 September 2008
FIYERO...

i've heard it said
that people come into our lives for a reason
bringing something we must learn and we are led
to those who help us most or grow if we let them
and we help them in return

well, i don't know i f i believe that's true
but i know i'm who i am today
because i knew you

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i don't know why
(well, actually i do)
but i've been quite the emo kid
recently.

and its really stupid
cause my life right now is technically fine
good. fantastic even.

uni is good. i just finished all my assessments
for at least the next few weeks
i have great friends at uni now
(who bake muffins :D)
and i'm having a good time
i'm actually enjoying uni now !

impact is great :D the kids are amazing
& i love them to bits !! heartheart .
the atmosphere is building
and theres so much to look forward to
so much more room for growth
and expansion and general awesomeness

work is alright, i get good shifts
& we have a new boss lady
which is always a good thing
and the people are coooooooooooool .
oh and mercy is so casual, i'm barely ever there .

so every facet of my life is good
except this one ..
i thought i was over it
and i've grown above it .
but this time, it feels real .
and thats the worst part .

so i don't understand why
i'm at this place again..



dear e m o kid ,

please go away. i'll give you some laurent strawberry tart if you do.



enticing isn't it?

love,


me
xx
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defying gravity .

i've just changed my layout.
black and green, a la WICKED !
& i've changed the links on the side
to wicked lyrics (: hearts .


drug test tmrw. wish me luck, i havent studied yet.
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Monday, 1 September 2008
wicked .

Hands touch, eyes meet
Sudden silence, sudden heat
Hearts leap in a giddy whirl
He could be that boy
But I'm not that girl

Don't dream too far
Don't lose sight of who you are
Don't remember that rush of joy
He could be that boy
I'm not that girl

Ev'ry so often we long to steal
To the land of what-might-have-been
But that doesn't soften the ache we feel
When reality sets back in

Blithe smile, lithe limb
She who's winsome, she wins him
Gold hair with a gentle curl
That's the girl he chose
And Heaven knows
I'm not that girl

Don't wish, don't start
Wishing only wounds the heart
I wasn't born for the rose and the pearl
There's a girl I know
He loves her so
I'm not that girl...

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WICKED.

so so good.

i want to see it again!


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